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[quote=Anonymous]7th grader at JW.

The shift from elementary to middle school is massive. Fights, vaping, weed, social media, chaos in the hallways, kids starting food fights...I feel like it is your archetypical middle school experience these days, for better or for worse.

My kid is in honors classes, straight As thus far. Some teachers are better than others, which is true of all schools. Kid had enjoyed PE and art, it's a nice break from the other work and evidently the teachers for these classes have some personality, which makes them highly entertaining classes. Kid has also had the same language teacher both years and enjoys the class/teacher/relationship. Worshipped last year's math teacher, who unfortunately left.

It's earlier than I would have liked to have to talk about making good choices about friend groups, vaping, weed, sex, fights, and the like but it is what it is. My kid is certainly getting lessons in life, equity, equality, randomness, privilege, wealth (e.g., kids whose parents have died, who have to take care of younger siblings, whose lives were washed away in floods, kids living in $1M+ homes,) and how much that can have an impact on your options now and down the line. They need these lessons. Do I wish they could have come at 16 rather than 11? Yup. But that's not the world we live in any more.

I am pleased with the education, academic and life lessons alike. My kid is learning stuff now that I learned in high school.

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